Latest Crime & Trial News

Akron police released video of the shooting of Jayland Walker who was killed June 27 in a pursuit that had started with an attempted traffic stop. More

July 6, 2022

Three people have been have been arrested, and two of them have been formally charged, after a man was shot and killed in Michigan while making a Facebook Live video. More

July 5, 2022

A federal judge on approved a plan that calls for transferring about 4,000 dogs currently housed at a troubled Virginia breeding facility to shelters where they can be adopted. More

July 5, 2022

A Colorado funeral home operator accused of illegally selling body parts and giving clients fake ashes has pleaded guilty to mail fraud in federal court. More

July 5, 2022

The Georgia prosecutor investigating the conduct of Donald Trump and his allies after the 2020 election is subpoenaing Lindsey Graham, Rudy Giuliani, and other members of Trump's campaign legal team. More

July 5, 2022

A federal judge threw out a host of actions by the Trump administration to roll back protections for endangered or threatened species. More

July 5, 2022

A federal judge will this week sentence former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for federal civil rights violations in the killing of George Floyd. More

July 5, 2022

Kaitlin Armstrong is back in Austin. She was apprehended last week on a beach in Costa Rica looking drastically different. More

July 5, 2022

By MICHAEL TARM, KATHLEEN FOODY and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — The gunman who attacked an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago fired more than 70 rounds with an AR-15-style gun that killed at least seven people, then evaded initial capture by dressing as a woman and blending into the fleeing […] More

July 5, 2022

Brittney Griner made an appeal to President Joe Biden in a letter passed on to the White House through her representatives, saying she feared she may never return home and asking that he not “forget about me and the other American Detainees.” More

July 5, 2022

RICHMOND, Va. — Amber Heard’s lawyers have asked a judge to throw out the $10.35 million verdict against her in the defamation case filed by ex-husband Johnny Depp. More

July 5, 2022

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — A shooter fired on an Independence Day parade from a rooftop in suburban Chicago, spraying the crowd with gunshots initially mistaken for fireworks. More

July 5, 2022

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates for six death row inmates: James Coddington, Richard Glossip, Benjamin Cole, Richard Fairchild, John Hanson and Scott Eizember. More

July 1, 2022

South African former track star Oscar Pistorius has met with the father of Reeva Steenkamp, the woman he shot to death in 2013, as part of his parole process. More

July 1, 2022

A Florida judge has refused to delay the sentencing trial of Nikolas Cruz in the 2018 shooting at a high school in which 17 people were killed. More

July 1, 2022

Former Georgetown University tennis coach Gordon Ernst, who once coached former President Barack Obama's family, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for pocketing more than $3 million in bribes in exchange for helping wealthy parents cheat their kids' way into the school. More

July 1, 2022

A local government in Kansas has agreed to pay $12.5 million to a man and his mother after he spent 23 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit. More

July 1, 2022

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appealed the British's government decision to order his extradition to the U.S. More

July 1, 2022

Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges was arrested in California on the eve of NBA free agency after a warrant was issued, according to the LAPD. More

July 1, 2022

Brittney Griner was arrested in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Police said she was carrying vape canisters with cannabis oil. More

July 1, 2022

R. Kelly could be in his 80s before the singer is free again, based on a 30-year prison term imposed this week by a New York federal judge. More

July 1, 2022

Sean Pickett told investigators he was "possessed" when he murdered Susan Pickett and a pit bull named Chico in May 2021. More

July 1, 2022

A judge on set Aug. 9 for a second trial for two men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. More

June 30, 2022

Georgia's highest court threw out a murder conviction for once-prominent Atlanta attorney Claud “Tex” McIver, who fatally shot his wife as they rode in an SUV, saying the jury should have had the option of a misdemeanor involuntary manslaughter charge. More

June 30, 2022

“This man was different,” Deputy District Attorney John McKinney told jurors, seeking to humanize Hussle after two weeks of testimony that dwelled on the technical details surrounding the 2019 shooting. “He wanted to change the neighborhood. He kept the same friends. And the neighborhood loved him. They called him Neighborhood Nip.” More

June 30, 2022

The 51-year-old Jackson is the court’s 116th justice and she took the place Thursday of the justice she once worked for. Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement took effect at noon. More

June 30, 2022

The woman accused of murdering professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson has been captured in Costa Rica, according to authorities. More

June 30, 2022

A judge has denied a motion to dismiss a civil lawsuit stemming from the death of Gabby Petito at the hands of her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. More

June 30, 2022

Cristiano Ronaldo is asking a U.S. judge to order a woman’s lawyer to pay the international soccer star more than $626,000. More

June 30, 2022

A 20-year-old woman was fatally shot Wednesday night while she pushed her infant daughter in a stroller on the Upper East Side, police said. More

June 30, 2022